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Gastrolobium formosum

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Gastrolobium formosum is a small, trailing shrub, with red flowers, in the pea family (Fabaceae), which grows up to a metre high, on clays and loam in swamps and along river banks. The inflorescence consists of head of four unstalked flowers which is sheathed by a whorl of large bracts, with the flower petals being obscured by the lower calyx lobes. The standard petal is less than on third the keel petal. It is native to the south-west of Western Australia.

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Family
Fabaceae

Ecology

How it lives

Propagated by
Seed
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Name
Gastrolobium formosum
Slug
gastrolobium-formosum
Kingdom
Plantae
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Gastrolobium
Species
formosum
Propagule type
seed
Container suitable
No
Indoor suitable
No
OSSI pledged
No
Hazard level
1
Data completeness
43

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